Heart Attack Risk, Diabetes, Holidays

Heart Attack Risk and Diabetes

Here are some (perhaps surprising) statistics about heart attack risk, diabetes, and stroke risk – first, diabetes:

12.0 million, or 11.2% of all men aged 20 years or older have diabetes

11.5 million, or 10.2% of all women aged 20 years or older have diabetes

Heart Attack Risk and Diabetes Statistics

Everyone concerned about protecting themselves and their families from the risk of heart attack should take into account these statistics about diabetes and heart attack risk:

• In 2004, heart disease was noted on 68% of diabetes-related death certificates among people aged 65 years or older. (Read: diabetes increases heart attack risk)
• Adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates about 2 to 4 times higher than adults without diabetes. (Read: diabetes increases heart attack risk)

Heart Attack Risk, Diabetes, and Holidays

It’s perhaps the most frenzied time of the holiday season, and the irony is that most of us wives and mothers are concentrating our energies on how to fill up our loved ones to overflowing with simple sugars and carbs. To prove we love them.

Perhaps this holiday season it’s time to make our holiday preparations keeping in mind just a bit the un-celebratory notions of diabetes and heart attack risk. So that we’ll have many more happy family celebrations.